Their latest wheeze is one that I have mentioned before but an interesting update was in yesterday's Times: THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.

But that has not stopped the desperate Republicans, fearing their party’s brand: the latest wheeze is to remove party affiliations from the candidates in the Senate race (just the Senate race, not all of them).

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"In March last year, for example, we discovered that the government passed data which it had withheld from the public to the airport operator BAA. The data showed that a third runway at Heathrow would immediately breach European noise and pollution limits, ensuring that it could never be built. BAA and the government worked together to re-engineer the figures to fit the limits. Their fake data was then presented to the public in the government’s consultation paper(7,8). It was used again this month to justify the decision to approve the third runway. This is the kind of wheeze you’d expect in Nigeria."- George Monbiot, Squandered, monbiot.com, 27 January 2009.